Turkey proposes running Syria oilfields jointly with Russia

Turkey’s president says he has proposed to his Russian counterpart that the two countries jointly operate the eastern Syrian oilfields, adding he could make the same offer to the United States, which is already implicated in stealing the Syrian crude. "I made the offer to Mr. [Vladimir] Putin” concerning the oilfields lying in Syria’s Dair al-Zawr Province last week, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday while returning from a meeting in Brussels, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported. He said he had made the project...